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Version 1.1.0 - May 18, 2020

With this version, the theme has fully implemented static search using lunr.js. That being said, a few modifications were necessary to implement this feature.

To utilize this, or future version of Hugo Future Imperfect Slim, please make the following changes:

Add the following to your config.toml before [params]:

...
disableLanguages = [""]

[outputs]
    home = ["html", "json"]

[params]
...

Remove the underscore from all about and contact page file names: _index.md --> index.md
Add layout = "about" or layout = "contact" to all of the files you just just adjusted the file names for.

While I realize this is inconvenient, I hope that it is worth it to you in the long run. Thanks for using the theme, and feel free to submit issues as needed.

Hawau Olamide Toyin

hawau.toyin@mbzuai.ac.ae

Hi, I'm Hawau.

a PhD student at MBZUAI under Dr Hanan Aldarmaki working on building speech models for real world impact, particularly in low-resource and atypical speech areas. My PhD thesis is on building models for automatic stutter severity assessment in collaboration with speech-language pathologists. I enjoy collaborating on interesting resource development projects and contributing open-source resource for the research community.

Updates…

(2026 May) Presented my works on low resource diacritization and Greek and Latin retrieval at LREC 2026!

(2026 Apr) Presented my work on stuttering at ALPS 2026!

(2026 Mar) Serving as a program committee member for Speakable 2026, co-located with LREC 2026!

(2026 Feb) Grateful to have 2 papers accepted at LREC 2026!

(2026 Feb) Happy to have presented a workshop at MBZUAI 5-year anniversary alumni event!

(2025 Dec) Grateful to have received the fee waiver to attend ALPS 2026!

(2025 May) Grateful to have 3 papers accepted to Interspeech conference!

(2025 May) Grateful to have 2 papers accepted to ACL 2025 main conference!

(2025 May) I was invited to give a research talk during my research visit to ISTI-CNR this month!

(2025 Apr) I attended the Computing Research Association – Widening Participation conference (CRA-WP) in Denver.

(2025 Jan) I presented a poster at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi.

(2024 Dec) I am grateful to have won a research grant from ITSERR-TNA!

(2024 Dec) I co-organized the AI winter school for highschool kids at MBZUAI.

(2024 Dec) I attended the Arabic winter school in Riyadh!

(2024 Aug) I hosted an alumni panel at MBZUAI to welcome the class of 2025.

(2024 Aug) Excited to start my PhD at MBZUAI with Hanan Aldramaki🤍!

(2024 Jul) I co-organized the AI summer school for highschool kids at MBZUAI.